Japan’s baseball fans rejoiced after Miami Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki on Sunday reached the career milestone of 3,000 major league hits, praising his dedication and calling him an example for young children. In his hometown in Aichi Prefecture, Ichiro’s father, Nobuyuki Suzuki, could not ...

Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki of the Miami Marlins on Sunday became the 30th Major League Baseball player with 3,000 career hits. Ichiro, who in 2001 became the first Japanese position player in MLB history, joins Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rico), Rod Carew (Panama) and Rafael ...

Samurai Japan’s quest to reclaim the World Baseball Classic title will begin in the nation’s capital. Tokyo was announced as a host for both rounds of the Asian region of the 2017 World Baseball Classic during a news conference at the NPB Commissioner’s office ...

For the first time in a long time, the next big major league player to come out of Japan could well be a position player, Tokyo Yakult Swallows second baseman Tetsuto Yamada. The 24-year-old Yamada is on a pace to far surpass his production ...

A federal judge sentenced the former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals to nearly four years in prison Monday for hacking the Houston Astros’ player personnel database and email system in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs. ...

Ichiro Suzuki started for the first time in 10 games and paid dividends with his fifth three-hit game of the season in the Miami Marlins’ 6-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Suzuki moved within six hits of a career 3,000 after ...

Ichiro Suzuki singled in the first inning and doubled in the ninth to raise his hits total in the Japanese and North American major leagues to 4,257, passing Pete Rose’s record Major League Baseball total during the Miami Marlins’ 6-3 loss to the San ...

Is a 162-game professional baseball season too long? Is a 143-game schedule too short? Is a 154-game calendar just right? According to a Bleacher Report article by Jacob Shafer last month, this could be the final year for Major League Baseball’s 162-game format that ...

Baseball made its call on the Chase Utley slide: out. Major League Baseball and the players’ union have banned rolling blocks to break up potential double plays, hoping to prevent a repeat of the takeout by Utley that broke the leg of New York ...

Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters ace Shohei Otani has attracted a crowd of scouts to Arizona this past week with his pitching, but his batting has left them speechless. The 21-year old, who hits left-handed, has been drawing rave reviews in batting practice and games ...

Major League Baseball has found no links between Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish and the alleged illegal gambling activities of his younger brother, Sho, U.S. media quoted a source as saying on Saturday. Sho Darvish was arrested in October and charged with gambling and ...